What Goes into a Revit Template?
Open embedded content: player.vimeo.com Boston RUG – Revit Templates from James Vandezande on Vimeo. Recording of the Sept 25, 2013 meeting of the Boston Revit User Group. Features Troy Misfud from my…
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Making a None option for Family Type parameter switching
Dieter Vermeulen describes an interesting workaround – when using a Family Type parameter, how can you turn “off” the family without using Visibility parameters? His solution is essentially to delete …
Installing Android apps in Linux by running Android in VirtualBox
Download: vbox86tp version with gapps & houdini & flash: androVM_vbox86tp_4.1.1_r6.1-20130222-gapps-houdini-flash.ova In VirtualBox, import the OVA appliance. Then, you may need to disable mouse integ…
How to find the IPs and Usernames of Users Logged In on your Network
Install and Run Windows Powershell Give yourself unrestricted script access: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Make a list of IPs to query and put it in a text file (1 IP per line). Modify script below…
Free Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 Testing VM VirtualBox images
Download at:http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads Read more / viahttp://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201309/page15.html You can access images for Linux, Windows or Mac. Just extract an…
My New PDF Markup Rig
One side-effect of moving home base closer to a city is the likelihood that one will have to commute, perhaps using public transport on a day-to-day basis. This means potentially having two hours a da…
Use an Underscore at the Start of a View Name to put it at the top of the Find Referring Views list
It will look like this:…
Showing Structural Column Cut Pattern from a Linked Revit File through Walls in a Host
Painfully, Architectural Walls in a Host model often occlude the Cut Pattern settings for Structural Columns in a Linked Model. You may be able to see the edges of the Structural Columns, but any View…
Forcing the Leader to Always Attach to the Top Line of multi-line Label tag Element in Revit
Make your Label aligned to Top and Left. Add a long line of Invisible Lines type a little bit further Left than the label itself. Your leader will now attach at the midpoint of the Invisible Line, pro…
Analytical model edge cannot have a length of zero (0)
We are seeing this error on a received Structural model:Analytical model edge cannot have a length of zero (0) Revit does not offer a solution – you can’t Delete Checked, and you can’t press OK. It ju…